Three days post-op and I'm feeling better everyday. I'm not going to lie and tell you how awesome my experience was. SMH After surgery I felt surreal. I couldn't believe I actually gave consent for 85% of my stomach to be removed forever! I felt like I had been beat up bad! I was hooked up to monitors because my blood pressure had skyrocted!! I had the urge to pee but couldn't. The nurses encourage you to drink and I couldn't get anything in. two little baby sips and I became nauseous and had dry heaves, retching and vomiting up some yucky stuff. I had loose stools and getting to the bathroom was a mess. The nurses did not respond to the call bells so I started unhooking myself from the monitors and going to the bathroom.

A lady came from intergrative medicine to give me pressure point acupuncture to help with the nausea but whatever she did made it worse and I started to vomit. This made my belly sore. I was scare to death all the heaving would hurt my new sleeve. The doc assured me this was normal and most women experience severe nausea because of the part of the stomach being removed. She suggested I take my nausea meds before trying to drink. I could not get discharged until I was able to drink. So two day later I was discharged. Today was my first real day home and I went out to take a walk this morning and too a little stroll in the park too. I came up short on my liquid intake. I should be drinking 3-4 ounces every hour this week and a minimum of 48 ounces total. I have to work on that because I don't want to get dehydrated.